I am building a mobile app for my wordpress site. I am planning to read the RSS feed from the website and display it using the mobile app. For this first I need a list of categories to be displayed on the home page and when the user selects a category, the posts in the category is displayed. I know how to get category specific RSS feed, but couldn't find a way so that I can get a list of all categories available on the website. Are there any plugins available which does this?
Any help will will be appreciated!
I personally prefer JSON over RSS feed.
To enable Wordpress output JSON just install this plugin
Then you can use it to browse categories and then posts on categories. For example on my own blog:
Categories
http://www.tapanila.net/api/get_category_index/
Posts from category Index 1
http://www.tapanila.net/api/get_category_posts?category_id=1
Whole documentation
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I have a page containing a set of images linked to other pages. How can I make each of the linked pages a separate blog?
To give you some more context, each image represents a challenge that I set myself up to and I would like to have a separate 'blog' for each challenge to document my progress. So far I have managed to link pages together and navigate from the page containing all the challenges to the page containing the details about 1 single challenge. However the latter page is not a blog so I cannot add new posts to the page. If I try to write a new blog post it gets added above the challenges(list) page
This is a link to the page that I am refering to.
Thanks in advance for your help
What you need to do is use categories for your posts - like Challenge One and Challenge Two - and then your posts will be automatically organized into category archives. Add a third category - called All Challenges - to all the posts and that category archive will list all posts in all three categories by chronology.
The URLs to the category archive pages will be something like this, depending on your category names and slugs, and how you set up your category base in Settings>>Permalinks.
example.com/categories/challenge-one
example.com/categories/challenge-two
example.com/categories/all-challenges
Link those category archive URLs from your images on your main page that has a gallery of images for each challenge post category.
You can make up custom category templates for each category, so the layout and design can be different.
See
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Category_base_and_Tag_base
and
https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/user-lessons/categories-vs-tags/
and
https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
There are multiple ways you can achieve this in WordPress. Let me tell you the easiest one:-
Using Post Categories
Follow the steps below:
Step1: Break your challenges into different categories, for example Challenge 1, Challenge 2, and so on... You can easily do that by creating and choosing the right category while writing a post.
Step2: Go Settings->Premalinks in your WordPress dashboard and choose "Post Name".
Step3: Now you have to find the new links for your challenge images. You can find these links in Post->Categories tab within your dashboard. Once you are in the categories browse page within your WordPress dashboard, just hover over the category whose link you want and you will see a "View" tab which will take you to that particular category page. This category page will show only the posts that you have published under that particular category.
Step4: Once you have the category link with you just update it in the respective challenge image link.
I hope you will be able to resolve your issue with this.
How can I know whether a specific Wordpress url is a page, category or post? I am setting up a website with articles to be categorized similar to that on hawaii.com.
Using this example, if we take the category 'Vacation Packages', we find under it a listing of the various islands. Are these pages or posts? example: www.hawaii.com/oahu/vacation-packages/. Also, is www.hawaii.com/oahu/ a page or post? I realize that this website is structured so that under each island, you can find links to the various categories such as www.hawaii.com/oahu/attractions/ and www.hawaii.com/oahu/accommodations/. How can I create this same structure?
Any help would be appreciated
I used the plugin 'Post Tags and Categories for Pages' instead. This plugin adds the stock WordPress categories for all of your pages. Pages will show up in the stock WordPress archive queries.
Also see: http://spicemailer.com/wordpress/add-categories-tags-pages-wordpress/
I want to add a child-menu item titled Search. This would lead to a page that allows the person to search for items in specific categories or post types. For example if they click the search link off of the blog page it would send them to a page that searches only blog related categories (News, blog, etc.) and if they did so off of a video page they would search only video categories (episodes, documentaries, etc.)
Is there a native shortcode for the wordpress search function that I can add to a page that also has the ability to specify the categories to search in (only on the admin side) so the user doesn't know their search is being limited?
I would also like it to display the search results right below the search box so if they want to seach again they can.
WP Search http://wpsear.ch/ has that ability.You can create pages with shortcode for custom search pages.
I'm new to wordpress. I've instaled woocommerce plugin in wordpress 3.9.1. And installed the add-on https://github.com/dgrundel/woo-product-importer to import the products. I imported a csv file with 15 products. All those products are belongs to one category. But when I see the frontend that category page, it shows only 5 products. Rest of the products are missing. How can I fix this? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
WooCommerce has an easy (I think) solution to this problem if you're still looking for one. Just set-up a page for each of your products and use this shortcode:
[product_category category="appliances"]
Replace appliances with whatever your category name is. It shows all your products of that category and gets you out of the WooCommerce loop so you can add more styling and content to your page.
Try checking Settings > Reading and see what it shows under "Blog pages show at most:" thats setting dictates how posts get shown on a page before pagination. That setting also affects how many products WooCommerce displays.
I'm kinda new to wordpress and was wondering if I could do the following:
Let's say I have a site for a bakery and in the mainmenu on top there are four links:
Home - About - Products - Contact
Under the page products I would have a number of posts : Bread, cupcakes, ..etc. all of these posts would be categorized under the category products. Now if I go to the products page I want to see only these posts in a sidebar. Therefor I have two questions:
How can I connect this category to this page
How can I show the posts from this category in a sidebar
If anything is unclear please feel free to ask me, also if you would suggest another way of working please let me know.
Much appreciated, thanks!
[EDIT]
I have found that it is better to add a category for this products category instead of a page. Now I'm still looking to display a static post as an intro for this products category.
For connect this category to this page
you can set product to category archive page from
wp-admin/nav-menus.php
you can create a simple page template to list category post
you can use http://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/ plugin and use short code like [catlist name="news"] in you page content.